Holiday Hiatus

Below are the last two posts for 2011. Thanks for a productive year to our readers, editors, and conference organizers. Here's hoping that 2012 is a year filled with exciting health innovations, disseminated widely, and adopted universally.  

CFP: Arts & Health

Arts & Health provides a pioneering international forum for the publication of research, policy and best practice within the interdisciplinary field of arts and health. This fast-emerging field has developed in response to international interest regarding the multifarious ways in which the arts contribute to health, wellbeing, social inclusion and healthcare practice across a range …

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CFP: Health, Culture, Human Body (conference)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body: Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 September 2012 Demographic change in a globalized world raises not only social and economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of …

CFP: Nurse Editors Conference

Call for Posters: INANE: International Academy of Nursing Editors 2012 Conference August 1-3, 2012, Marriott Château Champlain, Montréal, Québec, Canada The poster session at the 2011 San Francisco meeting of INANE was a great success! Now, you can share your creative and innovative ideas with other editors at the exciting, upcoming 2012 meeting in Montréal …

CFS: Death Studies

Death Studies | Published By: Routledge | Frequency: 10 issues per year | 2008 Impact Factor: .842 Ranking: 52/101 Psychology, Multidisciplinary, 13/32 in Social issues, and 22/29 in Social Sciences, Biomedical Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas …

CFP: Making Sense of Chronicity (Health, Illness & Disease Project)

2nd Global Conference--Making Sense of: Chronicity: A Health, Illness and Disease Project | Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September 2012 | Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in chronic illness (CI). The apparent increase in and diversity of …

CFS: Health Communication

Call for Submissions: Health Communication Increased to 8 issues per year in 2009 | Impact Factor now 1.154 | Ranking: 12/45 in Communication and 29/41 in Health Policy & Services As an outlet for scholarly communication between health and social sciences, Health Communication seeks to improve practical communication between caregivers and patients and between institutions …

CFP: Science Policy, Social Values

Call for Papers: Science-Policy Interactions and Social Values | Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology conference on Science-Policy Interactions and Social Values at the University of Texas at Dallas, April 13-14th, 2012 The Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology seeks proposals for papers and symposia for a conference to wrap up …

Inscrutable Reviewers

In my work as a writing coach and editor for nursing faculty and doctoral students, I sometimes work with authors in interpreting inscrutable anonymous peer reviewers' comments. As most of us know, the peer review process is not perfect, and we sometimes find that one reviewer says, ACCEPT, another says, REJECT, while a third says …

CFP: Int’l Nursing Research Conference

Submit your abstract for the 23rd International Nursing Research Congress in wonderful Brisbane, Australia, 30 July-3 August 2012. The deadline to submit is 7 December 2011. The 23rd International Nursing Research Congress will give you an opportunity to learn about clinical innovations, cutting-edge research projects and leadership initiatives.  This year's theme is "Creating a Legacy through Nursing Research, Innovation …